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Chip makers venture into portable HD H.264 market

Shifting warily from the fast-growing but increasingly commoditized H.264 decoder IC market, several semiconductor companies are testing the waters for H.264 High Profile encoder/decoders.  

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Inside Nikon's 4800 digital camera, with video

From an analog design perspective, the digital still camera (DSC) provides surprisingly rich turf. Far from what the product category name might imply, the DSC is loaded with mixed-signal design and components. Looking first at attributes tied to this month’s focus on line drivers, the Nikon 4800 of Figure 1 provides one view of [...]

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China Netcom chooses AVS over H.264 for IPTV

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SHANGHAI, China — One of China’s major wireline telecom companies, China Netcom, plans to fully implement a domestically developed codec in its fledgling IPTV network. Use of the codec, known as AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard), is a big break for its developers, which have had a hard time selling it to [...]

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Broadcom claims first universal DVD chip

SAN FRANCISCO — Consumer and communications chip supplier Broadcom Corp. Thurs. (Nov. 9) introduced what the company labeled the first single-chip solution to support both Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD standards.The battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, competing next-generation DVD standards with powerful backers, has been billed as the next VHS versus Betamax in some corners. [...]

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Skype founders plan to launch Web TV service

FRANKFURT/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The founders of file-swapping service KaZaA and Internet calling program Skype plan to launch advertising-supported Internet television shortly, Skype co-founder Janus Friis told a Danish newspaper.

The project, code-named Venice, will bring quality TV programmes for free to consumers who have a broadband Internet connection, he told Boersen financial newspaper.

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